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Referencing your sources

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Referencing your sources Always give credit to the original…

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The situation <ul><li>For your assignment, let’s say you need to solve a problem. </li></ul><ul><li>Before you can solve it, you need to do some research. </li></ul><ul><li>You find 3 good sources: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>2 are books </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>1 is a Web site </li></ul></ul>

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The correct process <ul><li>You need to include information about your resources in your assignment. </li></ul><ul><li>This is called “referencing”. </li></ul><ul><li>This gives proper credit to the people who wrote the sources in the first place. </li></ul><ul><li>If you don’t do this, you will have plagiarised. </li></ul>

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Summary <ul><li>You should read extensively before writing your assignment. </li></ul><ul><li>You can quote (or paraphrase or summarise) from other sources, but you must indicate where it came from. </li></ul><ul><li>You need to mention the source both in the body of your assignment and in the reference list . </li></ul>